Re: tg3 driver and interrupt coalescence questions

2006-06-27 Thread Robert Iakobashvili
Hi Cris, I'm looking to decrease the interrupt load on the system. During the test I mentioned above I had some interesting and confusing results. The changes from the default settings to the settings I posted resulted in a 100% performance increase (counted by the number of VoIP audio streams

Re: tg3 driver and interrupt coalescence questions

2006-06-27 Thread Chris A. Icide
Rick Jones wrote: > > Are you looking to increase or decrease the settings? I would think > (initially at least) that for VOIP one might not want to increase them. > > rick jones I'm looking to decrease the interrupt load on the system. During the test I mentioned above I had some interesting and

Re: tg3 driver and interrupt coalescence questions

2006-06-27 Thread Rick Jones
Chris A. Icide wrote: I've been digging around trying to get some information on the current status of interrupt mitigation features for a Braodcom 5704 interface. Specifically I'm sending and receiving lots of VoIP packets (50 pps > per stream, many streams). What I can't seem to determine i

Re: tg3 driver and interrupt coalescence questions

2006-06-27 Thread Michael Chan
On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 10:16 -0700, Chris A. Icide wrote: > What version of the linux kernel & tg3 drivers are required to support both > rx and tx mitigation? ethtool -C for tg3 was added around July of 2005. The version with this change added was 3.33. > What do the ethtool coalescence setting

tg3 driver and interrupt coalescence questions

2006-06-27 Thread Chris A. Icide
I've been digging around trying to get some information on the current status of interrupt mitigation features for a Braodcom 5704 interface. Specifically I'm sending and receiving lots of VoIP packets (50 pps per stream, many streams). What I can't seem to determine is this: What version of t